“In a span of 10 days, different things happened and I wanted to get a rock that looked like an egg. All these different things that, as a 10-year-old kid, I wanted to do. Stupid stuff but they are all true.

“I think it has a Z because I was told it looks cooler. As a 10-year-old, I wanted to be cool and the nickname stuck.

“My trainer back then is now the assistant coach with FC Copenhagen and he started using it first. Then, five or six mates from my school did the same.

“Everyone did the same at school after that, including the teachers. High school was the same and at Copenhagen I was asked what I wanted on my shirt. I asked if ‘Zanka’ was possible and it was.

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“I watched the film after I was told about the nickname. I liked the movie. You can draw parallels between the underdogs of the bobsleigh team and Huddersfield.

“And I sign as Zanka for autographs. I practiced it when younger. If it was on my back, I had to sign the same.

“The national team did put Jorgensen on my shirt at first but there were two of us so they switched mine to ‘Zanka’. But then some would ask, ‘Shall we call you Mathias Zanka?’ but I just said Zanka. Mathias Jorgensen is right but not the other.”

Zanka, or Jorgensen, is ready for a reunion with old mates and enemies when Huddersfield face Leicester today.